[Python-Dev] [OT] carping about irritating people (was: bytes / unicode)

Mon Jun 21 20:20:43 CEST 2010

Ben Finney writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > your base URL is gonna be b'mailto:stephen at xemacs.org', but the
 > > natural thing the UI will want to do is
 > >
 > > formurl = baseurl + '?subject=うるさいやつだなぁ…'
 > 
 > Incidentally, which irritating person was the topic of this
 > Japanese-language message to you?
(Kudos to Nick.) "Urusai" is also used to refer to the finicky. So,
the RFC-toting pedant. Ie, me.
 > (The subject in Stephen's example message translates roughly as
 > "(unspecified third person)
Not quite. The subject of the copula, if omitted, is entirely
context-dependent.